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Unit 1 Science Fiction
单元综合练习
一.完成句子
1. To make it more intelligent, he found a hundred users to ________ ________ (检验) the AI device.
2. The lovely robot in the bank ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ (非常尊重地服务每位客户).
3. The busy scientist went to sleep very late last night, ________ ________ (更确切地说), in the early hours this morning.
4. Engineers expect robots will be ________ ________ (更像) home helpers, and able to follow high-level commands.
5. My grandmother is looked after by my robot while I ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ (出差).
6. When the saleswoman discovered that the AI toy didn’t work, ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ (她脸上的表情) was one of absolute embarrassment.
7. When he knew he couldn’t fly back to Earth, he ________ ________ ________ ________ (把他的盘子推开) from him, refusing to eat any more.
【答案】
1. test out 2. serves every client with dignity 3. or rather 4. more like
5. am away on business trips 6. the look on her face 7. pushed his plate away
二.翻译句子
1. 我哭泣时,机器人常给我拿纸巾并且安慰我。 (fetch, handkerchief)
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2. 昨天探险者们偶然降落在一颗不知名的小星球上。 (at random)
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3. 杰克非常想有一艘飞船可以载着他环月旅行。 (have an urge to)
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4. 你一穿上这件魔法衣,立马就会消失,进入到一个新世界。 (fall away)
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【答案】
1. When I cry, the robot always fetches me a handkerchief and comforts me.
2. The explorers landed on an unknown small planet at random yesterday.
3. Jack has an urge to have a spaceship to take him to travel around the moon.
4. As soon as you put this magic cloth on, you will fall away and enter into a new world.
三.阅读理解
The “Father of Science Fiction,” Jules Verne, lived in the era of steamships and telegraphs, but was able to imagine technologies that wouldn't be invented for over a century.
Verne isn't the only science fic